Posted on 08/24/2017 7:17:41 AM PDT by Hojczyk
As Fox News’ Brit Hume noted on Twitter, the second paragraph of Skipper’s statement completely contradicts the first. If no one had a concern that Lee’s name would give offense, then why would there have been a distraction? If no one could possibly be so ridiculous as to equate a non-Confederate, Asian-American broadcaster, with the chieftain of the rebel army. Then why would anyone have cause to take note of broadcaster Robert Lee?
What’s also clear from this, is that ESPN has thrown Robert Lee (not the Confederate) under the bus. In saying that it was Lee, who showed “personal trepidation” about the assignment. Skipper places the blame on the broadcaster and not on ESPN. Though, even in this Skipper is a liar, since he admits that it was ESPN’s Charlotte production staff who came to Lee, and not the other way around.
Maybe, if Lee had gone to ESPN and brought up his feelings of great trepidation. Then perhaps the point that ESPN was doing this to save Lee from “social hectoring and trolling,” would hold water. Yet, the fact that ESPN initiated the dialogue more than likely proves that they were the ones who had great personal trepidation, and then convinced this young up-and-comer that he better have great trepidation as well. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be so hot for his career.
In this episode, ESPN shows themselves to be the worst kind of patronizing, leftists. Not only do they achieve peak lunacy in pulling a guy from his broadcast duties, because he happens to share a name with someone whose been dead for 146 years. They then try to cast themselves as his savior, by offering this absurd notion that it was he who initiated his own removal.
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ESPN Prez Tries to Say Network Didn’t Pull Robert Lee Over Concerns His Name Would Offend, Then Admits They Did
They didn’t want to appear racist, so they committed an act of racism.
Yeah, I wouldnt want to do anything like drag them thru court and teach them a lesson, but can you give me the number to the sharkiest, sneakiest, assholiest lawyer you know?
Between this and USC’s horse “Traveler”, it shows just how far off the edge liberalism has gone...
Which Clinton do you want?
Sheila Jackson Lee (double trouble)
-PJ
I don’t know anything about Robert Lee, so I am not denigrating him personally. But if you are willing to work for the kinds of people that run ESPN, well then you share some of the responsibility for the treatment you get.
Lie down with dogs, you get fleas.
Congress should outlaw or outlee the name Lee. All must change their name to Obama. Then we can honor one great president and eliminate possibly the great general in American history from out past and future.
Strike out Lee.
Yes, he, does.
The hole that ESPN is digging is getting pretty deep.
ESPN Don’t Like Chinese! They are “racist!”
(Did I do that right?)
I call Bravo Sierra on that spin!
That is one hideous liberal pc pu$$y
Not to mention Loretta Lynch.
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